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The Hitchcock Murders Paperback – 5 Nov. 2001

by Peter Conrad (Author)
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Alfred Hitchcock remains the most famous of film-makers. Why was he so successful in enticing us to share his fears and desires? Cultural critic Peter Conrad can date the start of his Hitchcock obsession to his first boyhood viewing of Hitchcock's Psycho, one afternoon in Tasmania some forty years ago. The master's grip upon his imagination has never slackened since. Now, Conrad explains how Hitchcock's mastery of the mechanical art enabled him to unnerve us, shock us, in ways that no artist had previously managed. He shows how Hitchcock made the ordinary world seem fantastically fraught, and how his recurrent themes tapped our common fantasies. Thus Conrad proposes Hitchcock as 'the greatest of the twentieth century's surrealists, wickedly expert at erasing the border between actuality and our haunted, licentious dreams'.
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  1. Print length
    376 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Faber
  4. Publication date
    5 Nov. 2001
  5. Dimensions
    13.97 x 3.18 x 20.96 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0571210600
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0571210602
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'Conrad's book is as witty, energetic and captivating as North by Northwest - and you can't top that.' Sunday Times

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Peter Conrad was born in Australia, and since 1973, has taught English at Christ Church, Oxford. He has written numerous works of criticism, including Imagining America, The Everyman History of English Literature, A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera, Modern Times, Modern Places: A Cultural History of the 20th Century and The Hitchcock Murders. He has also written two autobiographical works, Down Home and Where I Fell to Earth, and in 1992, he published his first novel, Underworld.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber; Main edition (5 Nov. 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571210600
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571210602
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 3.18 x 20.96 cm
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  • M. N. Thakkar
    1.0 out of 5 stars Pretentious tosh
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2008
    Pretentious tosh. I would illustrate this with quotations if I hadn't given the wretched thing to Oxfam; I rarely part with books, but in this case I was glad to make an exception. If you're a student of English literature, there's a chance you'll like it. Otherwise, don't bother, however much you like Hitchcock.
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  • Bryant Burnette
    4.0 out of 5 stars very good, but too many digressions
    Reviewed in the United States on 15 November 2004
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    If you're a big Hitchcock fan -- and if you've bothered to even reach this review, then you MUST be -- then go on and buy this book. It is far from perfect, but it's still one of the better books on the Master that I've read. Most of the criticism is insightful, and Conrad finds plenty of things in the movies that no other critic (at least none I've read) has written about. Perhaps most useful of all, Conrad has read all of the source material (novels, plays, short stories, etc.) that Hitchcock adapted for his films, and goes into detail about them at various points. This is interesting info, and again, not really something other Hitchcock critics have done.

    Here's the problem: Conrad goes on frequent digressions away from discussing the actual movies, or even their source material, and toward discussing other peoples' movies, or artists, or novelists, or philosophers, so on and so forth. The idea, I think, is to place Hitchcock in a frame of reference so as to come to some sort of a conclusion on how to judge him as an artist. And that is a noble goal. However, the digressions are too frequent, too long, and too convenient; many of the examples reek of having been dug up to support a point Conrad wanted to make, rather than being actually appropriate to a discussion of Hitchcock.

    Still, this is a valuable addition to the ever-growing canon of works investigating cinema's most profoundly excellent director. Go ahead and buy it; just don't expect it to be perfect.
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